When is the Europa League group stage draw: Date and start time, how to watch and pots for Leicester, West Ham, Rangers and Celtic

Leicester and West Ham will learn their Europa League group stage opponents today as this season’s competition gets up and running.

Villarreal beat Manchester United to European glory last term, winning on penalties after David de Gea fluffed his spot kick.

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Premier League duo Leicester and West Ham will be joined by the likes of Rangers, Celtic, Napoli, Bayer Leverkusen and Lyon.

The final of this season’s Europa League will be held on May 18 at the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan in Seville.

But before we can start to even think about that, we must first sort out the groups.

Europa League draw: Date and time

The ceremony will take place on Friday, August 27 and will begin at 11am UK time.

It will be held in Istanbul, Turkey.

There will be seedings and country protection, meaning Premier League clubs will not be drawn together in the same group.

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Europa League draw: TV channel and live stream

The group stage draw will be live in full on talkSPORT 2 from 11am this morning.

UEFA will be providing a free live stream of the draw on their official website.

It will also be shown on BT Sport 1 from midday.

Europa League draw: Confirmed pots

Pot 1

• Lyon
• Napoli
• Bayer Leverkusen
• Lazio
• Dinamo Zagreb
• Monaco
• Olympiacos
• Braga

Pot 2

• Eintracht Frankfurt
• Leicester City
• PSV Eindhoven
• Lokomotiv Moscow
• Celtic
• Red Star Belgrade
• Rangers
• Genk

Pot 3

• Marseille
• Ludogorets Razgrad
• West Ham United
• Real Sociedad
• Real Betis
• Fenerbahce
• Spartak Moscow
• Sparta Prague

Pot 4

• Rapid Wien
• Legia Warswa
• Antwerp
• Sturm Graz
• Brondby
• Midtjylland
• Galatasaray
• Ferencvaros